Word: benazir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pervez Musharraf, the election was intended to fulfill his promise to end one man rule?while ensuring he retained his own stranglehold on power. Early returns, however, indicated a fundamentalist coalition, the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), was the unintended beneficiary of Musharraf's banning of past political powerhouses Benazir Bhutto and Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif from standing for office. The startling result calls into question Musharraf's grip on power and his ability to closely support America's war on terror...
...President Pervez Musharraf is holding polls on Oct. 10 to fulfill his promise to return Pakistan to the democratic path. But it is a brand of democracy that suits the General better than anyone else. He rewrote election rules to disqualify former Prime Ministers Mohammed Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, and threatened to toss them in jail if they returned from abroad, which badly undermined both Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League and Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP). And once the polls are over, the elected government will work under a constitution amended by Musharraf, which gives expanded...
...extremist group called Sipah-e-Sahaba, which has been linked to numerous sectarian killings, is being allowed to run as an independent?despite election laws that disqualify any candidate who has criminal charges pending, or even those who did not earn a college degree. "It makes no sense that Benazir can't run in the election," says one Islamabad-based diplomat, "and this nasty guy can." Musharraf may have underestimated the power of nastiness, the depth of the Islamic conservatives' popular support, and the intensity of their hostility towards him. That anger also extends to his American allies, especially where...
Person of the Week Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has granted himself sweeping new constitutional powers that strengthen his ability to thwart political opponents, including exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf, an army general, still maintains he is a force for democracy in Pakistan. But there can be no fair elections under his reforms...
Musharraf is openly disdainful of his chief political rivals, exiled former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whom he recently branded as plunderers of the public treasury. But Bhutto still wants to re-enter politics; she plans to run in the Oct. 10 parliamentary elections, even though Musharraf has threatened to arrest her if she dares return from her London exile...